Arts
Lovers of French chansons
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR On the phone with the Jewish World from her home in Los Angeles, Julia Kantor describes the...
David Grossman: A comedian dies onstage in Netanya
In David Grossman’s latest novel, A Horse Walks into a Bar (Vintage), now available in paperback, comedian Dov Greenstein tries...
MSPIFF: Around the Jewish world in film
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor It is time once again for the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF),...
Jonathan Weisman: Inside three sets of parentheses
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Jonathan Weisman discovered America’s new anti-Semitism when he received a tweet with his name inside three...
Steven Zipperstein: On the slaughter
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER The notorious Kishinev pogrom of 1903 was one of many in Czarist and early Bolshevik Russia...
Jewish Minnesota’s contribution to Hollywood
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor Every year the Oscars include some Minnesotans, which is always a subject of interest...
Jonathan Rabb: A survivor in Georgia
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Being pursued by two women may sound like a bachelor’s dream, but for Yitzhak Goldah, a...
Lisa Gutkin: Weaving in the music
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Un mir zaynen ale brider, oy, oy ale brider / Un mit zingen freylekhe lider, oy oy...
Cohen and Hersch record sublime duos
Jazz clarinet virtuoso Anat Cohen tipped me off about this album last November, when we met in Decorah, Iowa. My...
Buczacz: The life and death of a Jewish town
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Little is needed to shatter the veneer of ethnic coexistence, as tragically illustrated in Buczacz, once...
